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writing play important
Writing is the same as music. It’s in how you phrase it, how you hold back the note, bend it, shape it, then release it. And what you don’t play is as important as what you do say. Robert Creeley
writing people trying
Don't try to write what other people are writing - write what is true to you. Richard Paul Evans
writing suffering littles
A little love has made me willingly study, preach, write, and even suffer... Richard Baxter
writing emotional rocks
Packs a Huge Emotional Punch! Graceful Writing, Great Acting, Exquisite Direction, Suspense, Profound Subject Matter and It Rocks! Rex Reed
writing thinking hands
I have never been able to write with anything more than the left hand of my mind; the right hand has always been engaged in something to do with personal relationships. I don't complain, because I think my left hand's power, as much as it has, is due to its knowledge of what my right hand is doing. Rebecca West
writing known knows
I really write to find out what I know about something and what is to be known about something.
writing editing edited
No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published. Russell Lynes
writing intelligent honest
Through writing, through that process, they realize that they become more intelligent, and more honest and more imaginative than they can be in any other part of their life. Russell Banks
writing paint draws
Although I still occasionally paint and draw, my life has now been shaped by my writing.
fiction larger-than-life life-is
Larger than life is your fiction in a universe made up of one. Sarah McLachlan
fiction principles wonder
Now, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural principle, I wonder if it could fail. Rudy Rucker
fiction science-fiction
Science fiction is not prescriptive; it is descriptive. Ursula K. Le Guin
fiction good muscle narrative principle punch root underlying
I just really like the verve and muscle of good crime fiction, the narrative punch of it. The underlying principle of good crime fiction is an insistence on a kind of root democracy. I've always responded to that notion. Daniel Woodrell
fiction imagined period science thrillers
I'm more into thrillers than horrors. I also have a thing for period pieces. Science fiction to me is also a period piece. It's an imagined period. Lexa Doig
fiction science-fiction science-love
I love science fiction. Moon Bloodgood
fiction debt ceilings
It is simply science fiction fantasy to say that, if you do not raise the debt ceiling, that everything is going to collapse. Mike Lee
fiction alive periods
Literary fiction is kept alive by women. Women read more fiction, period. Khaled Hosseini
fiction finding hardest hoping means moments mostly rolls stolen time weekend
The hardest part about writing fiction is finding long stretches of time to do it: for me, this means writing mostly on Saturdays and Sundays. But I am always thinking about my characters, jotting down ideas in stolen moments and hoping I'll be able to make sense of them when the weekend rolls around. J. Courtney Sullivan
novelists poet copyright
But here's the thing: what you do as a screenwriter is you sell your copyright. As a novelist, as a poet, as a playwright, you maintain your copyright Beth Henley
novelists perpetual
Sometimes I think that novelists suffer from P.C.S.: Perpetual Childhood Syndrome. Simon Mawer
novelists footnotes
Novelists never have to footnote. Jane Smiley
novelists philip sex
There are some novelists who can get away with writing about sex - Philip Roth, Ian McEwan - but they are rare. Ruth Rendell
novelists connections consciousness
One connection I see between novelists and terrorists is that we both attempt to alter consciousness. Don DeLillo
novelists lessons
The lesson you have to learn as novelist is how to be collaborative, and how to say, "I don't get to dictate this." Tom Perrotta
novelists vote your-favorite
You tell me your favorite novelists and I'll tell you whom you vote for, or whether you vote at all. Stephen Vizinczey
novelists poet ifs
If you tell a novelist, 'Life's not like that', he has to do something about it. The poet simply replies, 'No, but I am.' Philip Larkin
novelists function comment
The function of the novelist... is to comment upon life as he sees it. Frank Norris